Origin of antifields in the Batalin-Vilkovisky Lagrangian formalism

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(93)90596-HzbMath1009.81576arXivhep-th/9301103MaRDI QIDQ1967311

Poul H. Damgaard, Jorge Alfaro

Publication date: 5 March 2000

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9301103

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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Cites Work

• Field transformations, collective coordinates and BRST invariance
• Spacetime locality of the BRST formalism
• BRST symmetry of field redefinitions
• A NOTE ON THE ANTIBRACKET FORMALISM
• Lectures on the antifield-BRST formalism for gauge theories